By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Lego abruptly removed its chief executive Bali Padda after just eight months on Thursday, replacing the 61-year-old Briton with a younger Danish industrialist in a battle to become the world's ...

The National Green Tribunal today passed a slew of directions to rejuvenate the River Ganga, declaring as 'No-Development Zone' an area of 100 metres from the edge of the river between Haridwar and Unnao and prohibiting dumping of waste within 500 metres from the river. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also declared the following:-- Environment compensation of Rs 50,000 will be imposed on anyone who dumps waste in the river. -- All authorities concerned have to ...

The BJP will be the obvious gainer while the DMK stands to lose a major chunk of its vote bank, says R Rajagopalan. Now that superstar Rajinikanth has announced that he will indeed be joining politics, it would be interesting to see who will be affected by his decision and in which way. It is clear that after the two rival factions of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supported the National Democratic Alliance's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind, bonhomie has developed between them ...

It is mind-boggling to find our prime minister putting exports on the back-burner, says Jayanta Roy. Image: The 'Make In India' week was held with great fanfare in Mumbai in February 2016. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters There is euphoria in India about a growth rate of over 7 per cent. There are a lot of suggestions for creating jobs. But there is total silence on revival of the lost export momentum. Export growth is necessary for sustaining high growth and to create jobs in ...

'After shots were fired from the front, I ducked and shifted my position instinctively.''I had heard from other drivers that when stones are pelted at a bus the first target is the driver.'Rediff'com's Prasanna D Zore speaks to Shaikh Salim Gafur, the driver of the bus, whose presence of mind saved many lives on the night of July 10.Photographs and video: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Part 1: 'It's time for another surgical strike' Part 2: 'I will rip apart those terrorists' Part 3: 'Modi ...

RuPay has 42% of total debit cards, but contributes only 16% of PoS, e-commerce transactions. With banks scheduled to renew deals with Visa and Mastercard, Alnoor Peermohamed finds out how RuPay plans to tap premium customers. IMAGE: RuPay was launched around five years ago, designed as a local payment mechanism and as an alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is looking at increased uptake of its ...

NORTH INDIA Neemrana Hotels: Fakirs of the Heritage World “Heritage,” says Aman Nath, founder and co-chairman of Neemrana Hotels loftily, “has to be handled as a 'custodian', not as an owner. That would be taking it at the most obvious level of Maya - ...

ITC, Sun Pharma, Cipla and Tata Steel were top gainers on BSE Sensex Benchmark indices rebounded to ended marginally higher after a day of subdued trading as caution ahead of the launch of a goods and services tax (GST) kept investors on edge. The indices ended the month of June in negative, first monthly loss this year, even after they rose a bit in the late afternoon deals. Markets were in line with the Asian shares, which were hit by dismal performances of European and US markets. The ...

Companies and governments around the world counted the cost of a software epidemic that has disrupted ports, hospitals and banks. Logistics firm FedEx says deliveries by its TNT Express subsidiary have been "slowed" by the cyberattack, which had ...